Saturday, May 2, 2009

King David Suite, Op. 174


Op. 174 KING DAVID SUITE (THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS)
(May 2, 2009)
For (Voices and) Orchestra
I. O For the Wings of a Dove (Psalm 55)
II. Incantation (The Witch of Endor)
III. Song in the Forest of Ephraim (The Death of Absalom)


Score:


Performances:

June 13, 2009
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Church, San Francisco, CA

September 29, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 69: Moondance
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA


Recordings:

HILL COUNTRY MUSIC
(Complete Works, Volume 21)

GHOSTS
(Complete Works, Volume 82)

THE BIBLE

Friday, March 20, 2009

Sex and Delilah, Op. 173


 Op. 173 SEX AND DELILAH
(March 20, 2009)
For Voices and Instrument(s)
I. Death
II. Defeat
III. Delilah
IV. Dagon


SEX AND DELILAH
[a.k.a. SAMSON AND DELILAH (THE FRANK JUDGES): Part 2 Samson] is troped on Camille Saint-Saens's biblical epic, with strong arm tactics drawn from post-minimalism, George Crumb, Aaron Copland's Rodeo, Richard Wagner's Die Walkure, Igor Stravinsky, and BBC sound files.


Scores:

I. Death  II. Defeat 


 III. Delilah 


 IV. Dagon
 
 [I. Death: "On way he heard lion roaring" Brown, Mikheyenko, Alburger]


Performances:

May 22-23, 2009
San Francisco Cabaret Opera
Maria Mikheyenko - Girl at Timnah / Prostitute / Delilah
Mark Alburger - Samson
Kristin Brown - Angel / Manoah / Lion / Philistines / Israelites
Nanette McGuiness - Manoah's Wife / Honey Bees / Philistines / Israelites
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

I. Death: "I have a riddle for you" [Brown, Mikheyenko, Alburger, McGuiness]

[II. Defeat: "So they burned the woman to death" Brown, Mikheyenko, McGuiness]


 III. Delilah: "Samson went to see a prostitute in Gaza"


Videos:

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAMP-3hyUYk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebfGRR79dmc&feature=related

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Psalms, Book I, Op. 172


Op. 172 PSALMS, BOOK I (
March 15, 2009)
For Voices and Orchestra

Psalm 1
"Ashrey-Haiysh"
(Beatus Vir / Blessed Is) [Schutz]

Psalm 2
"Why Do Nations Rage?"
[Saul! Saul!]

Psalm 3
(A Psalm of David,
When He Fled From Absalom His Son) 
"Lord, How My Enemies Have Increased" [Crumb]

Psalm 4
(To the Choirmaster,
with Stringed Instruments -
A Psalm of David)
[Waiting for Godot]

Psalm 5
(To the Choirmaster,
for the Flutes -
A Psalm of David)
[The Gospel According to St. Matthew]

Psalm 6
(To the Choirmaster:
with Stringed Instruments;
According to the Sheminith -
A Psalm of David)
1-5
6-10

Psalm 7
(A Shiggaion of David, 
which He Sang to the Lord Concerning Cush a Benjaminite)
[Daniel / He Digged a Pit]

Psalm 8
(To the Choirmaster:
According to the Gittith -
A Psalm of David)
[Marcello - O Lord How Excellent]]

Psalm 9
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Muth-labben -
A Psalm of David)
[Holst / Trouble]                                                       [G9]

Psalm 10
"Why Standst Thou There?"
[Stravinsky - The Flood - Comedy]       [G9]

Psalm 11
(To the Choirmaster. Of David.)
"Flee to the Mountains" [King David]              [G10]

Psalm 12
"Help!"
[Beatles]              [G11]

Psalm 13
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David) -
"How Long?"
[Brahms]                                                       [G12]

Psalm 14
(To the Choirmaster -
 Of David) -
"The Fool Has Said"
[Berg - Wozzeck]                                                [G13]

Psalm 15
(A Psalm of David) - 
"Who Shall Abide?"
[Handel - Messiah / Marcello]                         [G14]

Psalm 16
(A Miktam of David) -
"Preserve Me"
[Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique]                         [G15]

Psalm 17
(A Prayer of David) -
"Here My Cry"
[Jobn IV]                                         [G16]

Psalm 18
(To the Choirmaster.
A Psalm of David the Servant of the Lord,
Who Addressed the Words of this Song to the Lord on the Day 
When the Lord Delivered Him from the Hand of All His Enemies, 
and from the Hand of Saul -
He said:) - "
The Lord's My Rock and Strength"
[King David]                                                                     [G17]

Psalm 19
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David) -
"The Heavens Declare
[Haydn / Reich - I]                                                            [G18]

Psalm 20
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David) -
"May the Lord Answer You
[Reich - I]                                                                     [G19]

Psalm 21
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David) -
"The King Shall Rejoice"
[Handel - Coronation Anthem II]                                        [G20]

Psalm 22
(To the Choirmaster:
According to the Hind of the Dawn -
A Psalm of David) -
Ia. "My God! My God!" [The Passion According to St. Matthew]
Ib.-VII. "Why Art Thou So Far from Me" [Handel - Messiah]
VIII. "He Trusted in God" [Handel - Messiah]                   [G21]

Psalm 23
(A Psalm of David) -
"The Lord Is My Shepherd"
([An] Evil Spirit [Came Over Saul])                              [G22]

Psalm 24
(A Psalm of David) -
"Earth's the Lord's / Lift Up Your Heads"
[Handel - Messiah]                                                               [G23]

Psalm 25
(A Psalm of David) -
"Unto Thee, O Lord I Lift My Soul"
[HAM Japanese]                                                       [G24]

Psalm 26
(A Psalm of David) -
"Judica Me Domine / Judge Me O Lord"
[HAM Siamese]                                                       [G25]

Psalm 27
(A Psalm of David) -
"When the Wicked Came" [King David] [G26]

Psalm 28
(A Psalm of David) -
"Unto Thee I Cry"
[HAM Chinese Modern]                                 [G27]

Psalm 29
(A Psalm of David) -
"Give the Lord, Ye Mighty"
[HAM Hindu]                                                         [G28]

Psalm 30
(A Psalm of David -
A Song at the Dedication of the Temple)
" I Will Extoll Thee"                 
HAM Arabic]                                                                           [G29]

Psalm 31
(Two the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David) -
"In Te Domine Speravi"
[Josquin]                                                                           [G30]

Psalm 32
(A Psalm of David -
A Maskil) -
"Blessed Is One"
[Satie - Gymnopedie II]                                                    [G31]

Psalm 33 -
"Exultate Justi"
[Purcell - Bell Symphony]                     [G32]

Psalm 34
(A Psalm of David,
When He Feigned Madness Before Abimelich,
So That He Drove Him Out,
and He Went Away) -
 "Oh Bless the Lord"
[Stravinsky - Rake / Schwartz - Godspell / Reich - II]             [G33]

Psalm 35
(A Psalm of David) -
"Plead My Cause"
[Job - II. We Were Plowing]                                     [G34]

Psalm 36
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David, the Servant of the Lord)
"Sin Speaks" [Berg - Wozzeck]                                            [G35]

Psalm 37
(A Psalm of David) - 
"O Rest in the Lord"
[Mendelssohn - Elijah]                                             [G36]

Psalm 38
(A Psalm of David,
for the Memorial Offering) -
"Domine, ne in furore"                                                      
[Josquin - 3 Psalms: III]
[Lasso - Penitential Psalm - HAM 1444]                                  [G37]

Psalm 39
(To the Choirmaster: to Jeduthun -
A Psalm of David)  -
"I Will Take Heed"
[Lasso - Penitential Psalm - HAM 144]
[Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I]                                       [G38]

Psalm 40
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David)
[Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms: I-II]                             [G39]

Psalm 41
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David) -
"Blessed"
[Beatitudes]                                                                                [G40]


[Troping source]                                    [Greek / Catholic Numbering]

Score:

Performances:

February 12, 19, 2005
Mark Alburger, Oboe and High Hat Cymbals
Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA

April 20, 2007
Half-Way Mark
Philip Freihofner, Oboe
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra 
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

June 13, 2009
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Church, San Francisco, CA

November 6, 2010
Student-Alumni Composition Concert
Mark Alburger, Oboe
Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

January 26, 2013
The Opus Project presents Opus 1
Mark Alburger, Oboe
Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA

September 29, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 69: Moondance
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

October 19, 2019
The Opus Project presents 81-82: Imaginary Soundscapes
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA


Recordings / Videos:

PSALMS, BOOK I
(Complete Works, Volume 81)

Psalm 6
(To the Choirmaster:
with Stringed Instruments;
According to the Sheminith -
A Psalm of David)


***

Book II

Psalm 42
(To the Choirmaster -
A Maskil of the Sons of Korah)

Psalm 43

Psalm 44
(To the Choirmaster -
A Maskil of the Sons of Korah)

Psalm 45
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Lilies -
A Maskil of the Sons of Korah;
a Love Song)

Psalm 46
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah -
According to Alamoth -
A Song)

 Psalm 47
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah)

Psalm 48
(A Song -
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah)

Psalm 49
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah)

Psalm 50
(A Psalm of Asaph)

Psalm 51
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David,
When Nathan the Prophet Came to Him,
After He Had Gone in to Bathsheba)
"Miserere"
1-4
("Mercy Upon Me")
[A Song of Repentence]
5-19
("Born in Iniquity")
[Passacaglia of Sex and Death]

Psalm 52
(To the Choirmaster -
A Maskil of David,
when Doeg,
the Edomite,
Came and Told Saul,
"David Has Come to the House of Ahimelech")

Psalm 53
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Mahalath -
A Maskil of David)

Psalm 54

Psalm 55
(To the Choirmaster:
With Stringed Instruments -
A Maskil of David) - "
Oh For the Wings of a Dove"

Psalm 56
(To the Choirmaster:
According to the Dove on Far-Off Terebinths -
A Miktam of David,
When the Philistines Seized Him in Gath)

Psalm 57
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Do Not Destroy -
A Miktam of David,
When He Fled from Saul, in a Cave)
"Pity"

Psalm 58
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Do Not Destroy -
A Miktam of David)

Psalm 59
(To the Choirmaster:
Accrodng to Do Not Destroy -
A Miktam of David,
When Saul Sent Men to Watch His House in Order to Kill Him)

Psalm 60
(To the Choirmaster:
Accrodng to Shushan Eduth -
A Miktam of David;
For Instructions;
When He Strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobath,
and When Joab on His Return Killed Twelve Thousand of Edom in the Valley of Salt)

Psalm 61
(To the Choirmaster:
with Stringed Instruments -
A Psalm of David)

Psalm 62 Psalm 63
(A Psalm of David,
When He Was in the Wilderness of Judah)

Psalm 64
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David)

Psalm 65
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David -
A Song)

Psalm 66
(To the Choirmaster -
A Song -
A Psalm)

Psalm 67
(To the Choirmaster:
With Stringed Instruments -
A Psalm -
A Song)

Psalm 68
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David -
A Song)

Psalm 69
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Lilies -
A Psalm of David)

Psalm 70
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David,
for the Memorial Offering)

Psalm 71

Psalm 72
(A Psalm to Solomon)

Book III

Psalm 73
(A Psalm of Asaph)

Psalm 74
(A Maskil of Asaph)

Psalm 75
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Do Not Destroy -
A Psalm of Asaph -
A Song)

Psalm 76
(To the Choirmaster:
With Stringed Instrments -
A Psalm of Asaph -
A Song)

Psalm 77
(To the Choirmaster:
According to Jeduthun -
A Psalm of Asaph)

Psalm 78
(A Maskil of Asaph)

Psalm 79
(A Psalm of Asaph)

Psalm 80

Psalm 81
(To the Choirmaster:
According to the Gittith -
A Psalm of Asaph)

Psalm 82
(A Psalm of Asaph)

Psalm 83
(A Song -
A Psalm of Asaph)

Psalm 84
(To the Choirmaster:
According to the Gittith -
A Psalm of the Songs of Korah)

Psalm 85
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah)

Psalm 86
(A Prayer of David)

Psalm 87
(A Psalm of the Sons of Korah -
A Song)

Psalm 88
(A Song -
A Psalm of the Sons of Korah -
To the Choirmaster: According to Mahalath Leannoth -
A maskil of Heman the Ezrahite)

Psalm 89
(A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite)

Book IV

Psalm 90
(A Prayer of Moses,
the Man of God)

Psalm 91

Psalm 92
(A Psalm -
A Psalm for the Sabbath [Day])
1-4 ...psaltery...
5-11...unicorn...
12-15...palm trees...

Psalm 93

Psalm 94

Psalm 95

Psalm 96

Psalm 97

Psalm 98
(A Psalm)

Psalm 99

Psalm 100
(A Psalm for the Thank Offering)

Psalm 101
(A Psalm of David)

Psalm 102
(A Prayer of One Afflicted,
When He Is Faint and Pours Out His Complaint Before the Lord)

Psalm 103
(A Psalm of David)

Psalm 104

Psalm 105

Psalm 106

Book V

Psalm 107

Psalm 108
(A Song -
A Psalm of David)

Psalm 109
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David)

Psalm 110
(A Psalm of David)

Psalm 111

Psalm 112

Psalm 113

Psalm 114

Psalm 115

Psalm 116

Psalm 117

Psalm 118

Psalm 119

Psalm 120
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 121
(A Song of Ascents)
"I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes"

Psalm 122
(A Song of Ascents -
Of David)
"I Was Glad /
Pray for the Peace"

Psalm 123
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 124
(A Song of Ascents -
Of David)

Psalm 125
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 126
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 127
(A Song of Ascents -
Of Solomon)

Psalm 128
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 129
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 130
(A Song of Ascents)
"De Profundis"

Psalm 131
(A Song of Ascents -
 Of David)

Psalm 132
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 133
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 134
(A Song of Ascents)

Psalm 135

Psalm 136

Psalm 137
"By the Waters of Babylon"

Psalm 138
(A Psalm of David)

Psalm 139
(To the Choirmaster -
A Psalm of David)

Psalm 140

Psalm 141
(A Psalm of David)

Psalm 142
(A Maskil of David,
When He Was in the Cave -
A Prayer)

Psalm 143
(A Psalm of David)

Psalm 144
(A Psalm of David)
["You Deserve to Die"]

Psalm 145
(A Psalm of Praise -
 Of David)

Psalm 146

Psalm 147
"Lauda Jerusalem"

Psalm 148

Psalm 149

Psalm 150]

Friday, January 23, 2009

Sex and the Orchestra, Op. 171


Op. 171 SEX AND THE ORCHESTRA
(January 23, 2009)
I. Happy Funeral Music (The Little Death)
II. Downfall (Detumescence)


Score:


https://imslp.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_Orchestra%2C_Op.171_(Alburger%2C_Mark)



Performance:

February 28, 2009
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Church, San Francisco, CA




Recording:

IMPROVISED LIAISONS
(Complete Works, Volume 80)


SEX AND THE ORCHESTRA
 is a diptych in preparation for the mounting of Sex and the Bible, in the spring of 2010, as part of San Francisco Cabaret Opera's Fresh Voices X season.  The two pieces are new orchestrations of Happy Funeral Music from Diocletian: A Pagan Opera, Op. 90 (2000, depicting a Christian massacre), and Downfall from Samson and Delilah, Op. 65 (1998, Abimelech's death by the hand of a woman in the Book of Judges).  The music is troped respectively on titular compositions by Henry Purcell and Camille Saint-Saens.


Dr. Mark Alburger (b. 1957, Upper Darby, PA) is a multiple-award-winning ASCAP composer of postminimal, postpopular, and postcomedic sensibilities.  His compositions are generally assembled or troped over pieces ranging from ancient and world music, to postmodern art and vernacular sources -- 171 opus numbers (markalburgerworks.blogspot.com), including 16 concertos, 20 operas, 9 symphonies, and the four-hours-and-counting opera-oratorio work-in-progress, The Bible.  He is Music Director of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra (sfcco.org) and San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions (goathall.org), Editor-Publisher of 21st-Century Music Journal (21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com and 21st-centurymusic.com), Instructor in Music Literature and Theory at Diablo Valley and St. Mary's Colleges, and Music Critic for Commuter Times.  He studied at Swarthmore College (B.A.) with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti, Dominican University (M.A., Composition) with Jules Langert, Claremont Graduate University (Ph.D., Musicology) with Roland Jackson, and privately with Terry Riley.  Alburger writes daily at markalburger2009.blogspot.com and is in the fourth year of an 11-year project recording his complete works for New Music Publications and Recordings.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Raga Improvisations, Op. 170


Op. 170 RAGA IMPROVISATIONS
(January 5, 2009)
for Instruments
     Alap
     Gat
     Jhala


Score:


Recording:

IMPROVISED LIAISONS
(Complete Works, Volume 80

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Sex and the Bible: The Opera, Op. 169


 Op. 169 SEX AND THE BIBLE: THE OPERA
(January 1, 2009)
For Voices and Instruments


PART I - GENESIS
1. THE CREATION

III. Let the waters be gathered VII. Let us make man 


 2. QUARTET FOR THE BEGINNING OF TIME: ADAM AND EVE AND CAIN AND ABEL


 II. Vocalise for the Disobedience at the Beginning of Time
III. Abyss of Separation 

IV. Ragtime Intermezzo of Expulsion
V. Lounging in an Eternity of Strife
VI. Blues Dance of Fury
VII. Fathering Hope
VIII. Lounging in Mortality (Baby Boom Boogie-Woogie Begats)
3. NOAH'S FLOOD ("Noah, Noah"): A MYSTERY PLAY
I. Wicked Prelude
VII. The Flood / Te Deum (The Little Death Raindrops Keep Falling Mainly in Mesopotamia)
IX. Rainbow / Te Deum / Postlude
4. BABEL
I. And the whole earth
II. Behold, they are one
III. And the Lord scattered them
5. ABRAHAM AND ISAAC
II. The Separation
IV. The Covenant / V. The Slave Girl  
VI. The Circumcision
[LOT IN LIFE]
VII. The Plea (Lottery)  
VIII. The Destruction (Lotsa Luck /  Parking Lot's Wife /  Lotherio)
IX. The Deception  
X. The Birth / The Banishment
XI. The Sacrifice / XII. The Burial / XIII. The Wife / XIV. The Death  
6. ISRAEL IN TROUBLE
 I. If It Is Thus
III. Eyes Dim  IV. Fly Away  
V. Well, Well, Well, Well, Well
VI. Shouldn't Work for Nothing  
VII. How To Depart  
VIII. On His Way  IX. One Day Dinah  X. If It Is Thus
 7. AMAZING JOSEPH I. I Had a Dream
 II. Meanwhile, Judah  
III. Now the Ishmaelites (Potiphar's Wife)
 V. Pharaoh Had a Dream  
VII. Take My Youngest Son
 VIII. I Am Joseph  
IX. Now I Can Die  

[PART II  - EXODUS-JUDGES
8. MOSES AND AARON
EXODUS / LEVITICUS
(13 Letters and a Postlude)
 I. Recitative - "And There Arose"
II. Barcarolle - "Woman Conceived"
III. Battle - "And He Spied"
V. Duet - "What Is In Your Hand?"
VI. Trio - "Let My People"
VII. Nine-Plague Twelve-Tone Passacaglia-Quodlibet - "River Is Blood"
IX. Storm/Tempest - "At Midnight" (The Tenth Plague)
X. Caccia/Tableau - "And the People Fled" (The Parting of the Red Sea)
XI. Duet and Chorus - "Sing to the Lord / Bitter Water" (Songs of Moses and Miriam)
XII. Quartet - "Thou Shalt" (The Ten Commandments)
XIII. Bacchanale - "This Gold Image" (The Golden Calf)
XVI. Postlude - "Be Gone"
NUMBERS / DEUTERONOMY (7 Letters)
XVII. Ritournello - "Would That We Had Died"
XVIII. Interlude - "How Long" (Wander in the Wilderness)
XIX. Procession - "Let Us Pass" (Balaam's Ass)
XX. Chorus - "There Shall a Star"
9. SAMSON AND DELILAH (THE FRANK JUDGES)
Scene 1 - Start I. Digits (Adonibezek)
III. Disemblance (Ehud and Eglon)
IV. Deborah
VI. Downfall (Abimelech)
VII. Daughter (Jeptha) Scene 2 - Samson
VIII. Death (The Lion)
IX. Defeat (The Ass's Jaw)
X. Delilah
XI. Dagon Scene 3 - Stop
XIII. Disunity (The Levite's Concubine)]



Performances: March 5-7, 12-14, 2010
San Francisco Cabaret Opera / Goat Hall Productions
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

Monday, September 1, 2008

The Bible, Op. 168


Op. 168 THE BIBLE
(September 1, 2008)
66 Books for Voices and Orchestra
I. GENESIS
     THE CREATION, Op. 93
     QUARTET FOR THE BEGINNING OF TIME: ADAM AND EVE
          AND CAIN AND ABEL
, Op. 97
     NOAH'S FLOOD ("Noah, Noah"): A MYSTERY PLAY, Op. 98
     BABEL, Op. 47
     ABRAHAM AND ...
          [LOT IN LIFE
, Op. 36]
     . . . ISAAC, Op. 52
     ISRAEL IN TROUBLE, Op. 54
     AMAZING JOSEPH, Op. 57
II-V. EXODUS / LEVITICUS / NUMBERS / DEUTERONOMY
     MOSES AND AARON, Op. 63
     [THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Op. 58]
VI. JOSHUA FOUGHT THE BATTLE, Op. 64
VII. SAMSON AND DELILAH (THE FRANK JUDGES), Op. 65
VIII. BABE RUTH, Op. 66
IX-XIV. - I-II SAMUEL / I-II KINGS / I-II CHRONICLES
     SAUL! SAUL!, Op. 67
     KING DAVID, Op. 69
     SOLOMON, Op. 70
     ELIJAH ROCK, Op. 71
XV. EZRA POUNDS, Op. 263
     XVI. NEHEMIAH
XVII. ESTHER XERXES
, Op. 78
XVIII. JOB: A MASQUE, Op. 79
XIX. PSALMS
     BOOK I, Op. 172
          PSALMS 1-5
          [PSALM 6
, Op. 1]
          PSALMS 7-41
     BOOK II
, Op. 187 - PSALMS 42--57
     BOOK III
, Op. 197 - PSALMS 58-91
     BOOK IV
, Op. 202
          PSALMS 90-91
          [
PSALM 92 (SONG FOR THE SABBATH DAY), Op. 9]
          PSALMS 93-106
      BOOK V
, Op. 218
          PSALMS 107-119
          
[SONGS OF DEGREES (PSALMS 120-134), Op. 163]
           PSALMS 135-150 
XX. PROVERBS, Op. 364
XXI. ECCLESIASTES, OR THE PREACHER, Op. 3
XXII. THE SONG OF SOLOMON, Op. 181
XXIII. ISAIAH, Op. 175
XXIV. JEREMIAH [XXV.] LAMENTATIONS, Op. 278
XXVI. EZEKIEL DRY BONES, Op. 356
XXVII. THE OPERA OF DANIEL, Op. 73
XVIII-XXI. HOSEA / JOEL / AMOS / OBADIAH
     FOUR PROPHETS
, Op. 357
XXXII. JONAH, Op. 258    
XXXIII-XXXVIII. MICAH / NAHUM / HABAKKUK / ZEPHANIA / HAGGAI / ZECHARIAH
    SIX PROPHETS, Op. 358
XXXIX. MALACHI, Op. 182
XL. MATTHEW / (XLI. MARK)
     THE NATIVITY
, Op. 72
     [JOHN AND . . . ]
     THE GOSPEL
, Op. 85
          THE BEATITUDES, Op. 81
          THE LORD'S PRAYER, Op. 5
          [. . . SALOME, Op. 80]
          THE PASSION, Op. 55
XLII. LUKE
     THE NATIVITY ACCORDING TO...
          [AVE MARIA
, Op. 372;
           MAGNIFICAT, Op. 86]
      ...ST. LUKE, Op, 106
       PARABLES, Op. 365
       EASTER DAWNING, Op. 363
XLIII. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN, Op. 327
XLIV. UNNATURAL ACTS, Op. 359
     ST. PAUL SUITE, Op. 145
XLV-LVIII. THE [PAULINE] LETTERS, Op. 360
     ROMANS
          [ROMANS 8 (Sermon I)
, Op. 379]
     I-II CORINTHIANS
          [1 CORINTHIANS 13
, Op. 378]
     GALATIANS
     BOOK EPHESIANS
, Op. 401
          [LIES, Op. 391]
     PHILIPPIANS
     COLOSSIANS COLLISIONS
, Op. 395
     I-II THESSALONIANS
     SAN TIMOTEO CAN[YON]TATA
, Op. 33
          BOOK I
               WESTMINISTER TROPES,
Op. 42: XI. Music for 3 Deacons
          BOOK II
     TITUS
     PHILEMON
     HEBREWS
           HEBREWS 11-12 (Sermon II)
, Op. 380]
LIX. JUST JAMES, Op. 361
LX-LXI. PETER PETER, Op. 362
LXII-LXIV. JOHN JOHN JOHN, Op. 183
LXV. FOUR MICHAELS (ZODIAC CONCERTO after THE BOOK OF JUDE), Op. 245
LXVI. BOOK OF REVELATION, Op. 296


Score:


Performances:

April 15, 1999
Amy Johnson, Flute / Sara Diehl, Oboe / Mark Francis, Guitar
Margale Recital Hall, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA.

December 22, 2000
Mark Alburger
NEW MUSIC House, CA

December 23, 2000
NACUSA Ensemble
Hawley Salon, Half Moon Bay, CA

February 12, 19, 2005
Mark Alburger, Oboe and High Hat Cymbals
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

April 15, 18, 22, 23, 25, 29, 30; May 2, 6, 20, 2005
Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

June 10, 2005
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

June 30, July 6, 2005
Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

May 21, 2006
Fresh Voices VI
Bianca Showalter, Soprano / Robert Benda, Tenor
Keisuke Nakagoshi, Piano / Goat Hall Productions
Thick House, San Francisco, CA

November 1, 3, 17, 2006
Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics
Diablo Valley College Music Technology Center, Pleasant Hill, CA

April 20, 2007
Halfway Mark
Philip Freihofner, Oboe / Bianca Showalter, Soprano
Goat Hall Productions / San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

April 29, 2007
Bianca Showalter, Soprano
Goat Hall Productions
Goat Hall, San Francisco, CA

December 24, 2007
Page Salon, Linwood, WA

October 8, 2008
Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics
Scola Prosek Salon, San Francisco, CA

May 22-23, 2009
Fresh Voices IX
Sex and Delilah
Maria Mikheyenko, Soprano (Delilah) / Mark Alburger, Tenor (Samson)
Kristen Brown and Nanette McGuiness, Sopranos
Goat Hall Productions
Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

June 13, 2009
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

September 20, 2009
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Presbyterian Church, San Francisco, CA

March 5-7, 12-14, 2010
Sex and the Bible: Part I
Goat Hall Productions
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

June 17, 19, 2010
Fresh Voices X
God / Bildad the Shuhite - Nanette McGuinness 
Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Messenger IV - Crystal Philippi
Job - Marilyn Pratt
Job's Wife / Messenger III - Kate Bautch
Eliphaz the Temanite / Messenger II - Sarita Cannon
Elihu / Messenger I - Heather Klein
Director - Mark Alburger
Music Director - Martha Stoddard
Goat Hall Productions
Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley, CA

November 6, 2010
Student-Alumni Composition Concert
Mark Alburger, Oboe
Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

November 13, 2010
God / Bildad the Shuhite - Harriet March Page
Satan / Zophar the Naamathite / Messenger IV - Maria Mikheyenko
Job - Marilyn Pratt
Job's Wife / Messenger III - Kate Bautch
Eliphaz the Temanite / Messenger II -  Suzanna Mizell
Elihu / Messenger I - Heather Klein
Director - Mark Alburger
Music Director - Martha Stoddard
Goat Hall Productions, Community Music Center, San Francisco, CA

October 15-16, 2011
Lisa Scola Prosek, Soprano / Olivia Flanigan, Alto
San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra
Old First Church, San Francisco, CA; Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA

April 14, 2012
Fresh Voices XII: Not Shy and Retiring
Sarita Cannon, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor / Wayne Wong, Piano
Goat Hall Productions
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

November 10, 2012
Student Alumni Composition Concert
Mark Alburger, Voice and Electronics
Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

January 26, 2013
The Opus Project presents Opus 1
Mark Alburger, Oboe
Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA

March 30, 2013
The Opus Project presents Opus 3
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano; The Opus Project Orchestra
Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA

May 25, 2013
The Opus Project presents Opus 5
David Chavez, Tenor / The Opus Project Orchestra
Berkeley Arts Festival, Berkeley, CA

September 28, 2013
The Opus Project presents Opus 9
Megan Cullen, Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor / The Opus Project Orchestra|
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

September 26, 2015
The Opus Project presents Opus 33: Love! Love! Love! (Valentines Out of Season)
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

December 20, 2015
The Opus Project presents Opus 36: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery
Jill Wagoner, Soprano/ Mark Alburger, Tenor / The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

June 25, 2016
The Opus Project presents Opus 42: A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Musicverse
Alan Kingsley, Flute / Stardust, Oboe / Michael Stubblefield, Guitar
Park Presidio United Methodist Church, San Francisco, CA

November 19, 2016
The Opus Project presents Opus 47: Airs Apparent
The Opus Project Orchestra
Center for New Music, 55 Taylor Street, San Francisco, CA

April 15, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 52: Non-Toxic, Non-Taxing, II
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valey College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

June 24, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 54: Requiem Reveille Rhapsody Romanza
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

July 29, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 55: Bard Is the Ward
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

October 7, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 57: Varieties
The Opus Project  Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

October 28, 2017
The Opus Project presents Opus 58: Haunted
The Opus Projet Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

December 1, 2017
Goat Hall 30th Anniversary Celebration
Harriet March Page, Mezzo-Soprano / Mark Alburger, Tenor / Frank Johnson, Piano
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA

March 17, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 63: Greensleeves of Mirth
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

April 28, 2018
The Opus Project presents the Opus $64,000 Dollar Question
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Pleasant Hill, CA

May 26, 2018
The Opus Project presents Opus 65: The Unkindest Cut of All
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

June 30, 2018
The Opus Project presents (Get Your Kicks with) Opus 66
The Opus Project Orchestra
Diablo Valley College Music Building, Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill, CA

September 11, 2021
The Opus Project presents Opus 91
Zoom Everywhere!

October 23, 2021
The Opus Project presents Op. 92: Moving On
Zoom Everywhere!

December 4, 2021
The Opus Project presents Op. 93: Transgression Transition Transmissions
Zoom Everywhere!


Recording:
THE BIBLE
(Complete Works, Volume 78)